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Crash Course in Family History - An Easy Step-by-Step Illustrated Guidebook and Comprehensive Resource Directory – 4th Edition; by Paul Larsen ; 262 full color pages; Hardcover; 2010; 8.75x11.25; ISBN: 9780974269559; Item #: PL01
Now in a new Fourth Edition, this widely acclaimed, comprehensive resource directory is also a step-by-step illustrated guidebook offering a wealth of invaluable resources, ideas, tips, and motivation to everyone on a fascinating journey to find one’s roots. It’s an essential, simplified guide for everyone tracing their own family roots and stories – both beginners and experts – with all the newest Web sites, software, tools and technology to guide beginners and empower experts.
A Brief Overview
A step-by-step, colorfully-illustrated, easy-to-understand guidebook featuring 3-easy-steps to trace your family roots and stories. Walks you through the fascinating family history journey hand-in-hand! It couldn’t be easier!
Provides new, invaluable, comprehensive resources not conveniently found elsewhere – for even seasoned-researchers and veteran family historians to connect with your ancestors.
Learn about the latest technology, the newest tools and tips, and the Best of the Internet web sites to build your family tree and add new branches. Makes family history fun, easy, and fast!
Empowers you with knowledge, saves you valuable time, motivates you to get started, and inspires you with heart-warming stories and timeless insights to strengthen bonds between family members and promote a sense of belonging that ties generations together.
Helps you trace your own family roots, gather your family stories, organize your information, archive your family photos and documents, share your family tree with others, hold a family reunion, grow closer together, and unite your family through generations. It couldn’t be better!
The new fourth edition, richly-illustrated epic guidebook and resource manual written and published by Paul Larsen. Large format, 262 full-color pages, hardbound, easy-to-read.
Features
- Updated - the newest Web sites, software, tools and technology
- Expanded - hundreds of new valuable resources
- The Best of the Internet: Key Family History Web Sites
Best Top 10 Web Sites; Best Web Portals to Family History; Best International Sites: Passport to the Old Country; Best Tools to Make it Easier; Best Sites for Vital Records (Birth, Marriage, Death Records); Best Sites for Census, Immigration, Naturalization, and Military records and Best Sites for “What’s New?”
- The latest ‘new FamilySearch’ information
"Crash Course in Family History" Book Review
Expanded Table of Contents
Preface
- About this fourth edition
- How this book came to be
- A family history of this book
- How this book is organized
Introduction: Where do I Start?
- Why family history?
- Connecting the generations
- What should we be doing
- Loving your ancestors
- Popularity in America
- Do your ancestors want to be found?
- Inspirational stories
- Our ancestors are close to us
- Free Tutorials/Charts
- 10 things you can do to get started
- e-Newsletters/Magazines/TV Programs
- Blogs
- What is a podcast?
- Books, forms, marketplace
- Getting started
Follow These 3-Easy Steps to Begin Building Your Family Tree & Connect to Your Ancestors
Step 1 — Identity Your Ancestors Using Your Family
- Write What You Know about your ancestors
- Why keep a research log?
- Forms and computers make it easier
- Free genealogy charts and forms
- Look for more information in your home
- To locate living relatives
- Choose an ancestor to learn more about
- Ask relatives for information
- Citing sources
- Organize and document as you go
- Evaluate the evidence
- What is a GedCom?
- Find living people
- 20 tips to keep you on the right track
Step 2 — Add New Branches to Your Family Tree Using the Internet
- See if someone has already found info on your ancestors
- First, search existing family trees online
- How to export your tree from Ancestry.com
- Search for a published family history
- Message boards
- Where to search (chart)
- What is a family history center
- How to use the family history library catalog
- Search other records for missing info
- Search engines
- Free research guides and outlines
- Census records: a snapshot of history
- Census comparison charts
- Immigration records
- Naturalization records
- Military records
- Libraries and organizations
- African American roots
- Hispanic American roots
- Jewish resources
- The best LDS websites
- Other ethnic resources
- Additional ways to do research online
- Social networking websites
- Mailing lists/newsgroups
- Surnames and family associations
- Queries/help lists
Step 3 — Connect with the Lives and Stories of Your Ancestors
- Benefits of connecting with ancestors
- Appreciating your heritage
- Tools to help reflect on the past
- Honoring your ancestors
- Timelines and history
- Photographs, videos and scrapbooking
- Newspapers and periodicals
- Cemeteries/obituaries/death records
- Maps and geography
- Court, land and financial records
- Tracing your medical heritage
- Royalty and nobility
- Heraldry and arms
A Directory of Software and Tools
- Which software is the Best?
- Software review by experts
- Windows family history software
- Web-based software
- Mac software
- Handheld software
- Software tools and utilities
Best of the Internet
- Best top 10 websites to search
- FamilySearch/New FamilySearch
- What is New FamilySearch
- How to use New FamilySearch
- Help center overviews/guides
- FamilySearch certified affiliates
- Unlocking the granite Mt. vault
- FamilySearch Wiki
- FamilySearch community trees
- FamilySearch Indexing
- Published family histories
- Family History Library catalog
- Searchable maps
- Vital records index
- Ancestry.com
- RootsWeb.com
- Footnote.com
- WorldVitalRecords.com
- GenealogyBank.com
- U.S.GenWeb.org
- U.S. National Archives
- Godfrey Memorial Library
- FamilyTreeConnection.com
- More best of the Internet
- Best web directories/portals
- Best international websites
- Best tools to make it easier
- Other FamilySearch portals
- Best sites for vital records
- Best sites for "What's New"
Organizing & Archiving
- Organizing your information
- Getting started
- Organize folders first by surname
- Color code your files
- Filing you documents
- Using 3-ring binders
- Organizing you emails and letters
- What are your memories worth?
- Create your own family archive
- Archival tools
- Archiving your digital files
- Information loss
- Understanding file formats
- Scanning your family history
- Organizing & preserving your digital files
- Keeping up with technology
- Handheld computers and software
- Do what works for you
Leaving an Enduring Legacy
- One hundred years from now
- Resources fro writing your history
- Hidden benefits of keeping a history
- Helpful software & websites
- Books to consider
- Web articles
- Collecting your family stories
- Conducting an oral interview
- Interview guidelines & questions
Other Rewarding Opportunities
- Sharing your family history
- Publishing your family tree on the web
- Creating your own family website
- Creating you own family blog
- Creating your own online photo album
- Organizing your family
- Holding a family reunion
- Family association goals
Glossary
Index
In summary, Crash Course in Family History is both an excellent primer for the beginner and an excellent directory and guide for any family historian.
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